Tuesday, October 10

12:00-1:00pm Registration

2:30 Secure Health and Privacy
Raymond L. Dudley, Director, ARINC Healthcare Solutions, Mark J. Jacobs, Director of Technology, Wellspan Health, and Raymond A. Pedden, Chief Technology Officer, TTM Solutions, Inc.

2:40 Refreshment Break, Poster & Exhibit Viewing (Sponsorship Available)

3:15 Chairperson’s Remarks
Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., Professor, Brown Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center; Professor of Experimental Therapeutics, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Rice University

 

Featured Speaker

3:20 Integrated Crew Health Care System for Space Flight Jeffrey R. Davis, M.D., M.S., Director of Space Life Sciences, NASA Johnson Space Science Center, Houston  This presentation will include a brief overview of space flight and the lessons learned for health care in microgravity. It will describe the development of policy for health care for international crews, and conclude with a discussion of an integrated health care system.

3:50 Neural Prostheses: Crossing the Last Meter in Personal Telecommunications 
Gerald E. Loeb, M.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of Medical Device Development, Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Deputy Director, NSF Engineering Research Center for Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems, University of Southern California 
Fully implanted medical devices are monitoring and controlling ever more complex bodily functions, including the very senses and muscles with which individuals interact with the external world. Such devices employ complex and proprietary wireless protocols to send power and data between their internal and external components. Their external components inexorably become connected to the worldwide web of telecommunications that has now crossed the last kilometer into everyone’s home, facilitating centralized management of medical records and treatment. Eventually, these data could include such personal experiences as the scenes and sounds in the patient’s environment, if and how such data were actually presented to the nervous system, and what autonomic responses and motor behaviors they evoked. There are many technological and socioeconomic reasons why this will all take a great deal longer than we either hope or fear, but now might be a good time to start thinking about where we want to go with all this emerging technology. 

4:20 Homeostasis By Networked Implants: Toward A Technological Immuno/Endocrine System?
Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D.
A major component of the concept of digital health is the distribution of networked sensing, monitoring and therapeutic delivery stations. These will have the objective of maintaining suitable balances of molecular actors and counteractors, in a dynamic response to varying physiological, pathological, and environmental conditions. For these stations ever to be deployed within the body as implants, it will be necessary to solve a number of daunting technical problems, each in broad generality, as opposed to approaches limited to a subset of sensed molecules, physical conditions, and delivery agents. The problems include the time-controlled release of agents, starting with sustained zero-order, and progressing to remotely activated, preprogrammed, and self-regulated release in response to a detected set of conditions - all within the context of functional biocompatibility for the desired applications. Our group has been active in these fields for several years - a report on our progress and unsolved challenges will be presented in this talk. 

4:50 Implantable Telesensor Integrated Circuits
Thomas L. Ferrell, Ph.D., Research Professor, Physics, University of Tennessee 
Telesensor capsules have been developed for the NIAAA for implantation into mammals. The capsules report the concentration of administered ethanol and the metabolite acetaldehyde and the body temperature. In vivo test data from WiStar rats will be shown along with details of the sensors and telemetry.

5:20 Development of Wearable Sensors for Physiological Monitoring
Daniel Traviglia, Member of Technical Staff, Draper Laboratories
The development of wearable sensors will enable individuals to monitor their health on a real-time basis without interfering with daily activities or reducing quality of life. These sensors will empower patients with increased physiological information and facilitate the transition of healthcare from the clinic to the home, and from treatment to prevention. The challenge, however, is to develop wearable sensors that complement lifestyle and provide both accurate and relevant physiological information. Military interest in wearable sensors has provided the ability to remotely acquire cardiopulmonary data from deployed soldiers. Physiological monitoring by the military also reduces the risk to medical personnel via remote triage and communicates important health status during the “golden hour” that follows many traumatic injuries. Additionally, the introduction of wearable sensors for battlefield soldiers would help medical facility preparation for combat injuries. The development of new wearable sensors could benefit directly from the integration of enabling technologies such as MEMs sensors, distributed intelligence, robust fault-tolerant software, signal processing and sophisticated data encryption for the secure transfer of sensitive information. 

5:50 TBA

6:20–7:30 Reception, Poster & Exhibit Viewing